Alberta Environmental Network

Turn your passion into action!  The Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of Edmonton (WRSE) is looking for Directors at Large to serve on its Board of Directors.

WRSE is a non-profit, non-partisan, charitable organization that has been providing compassionate care for our community’s injured and orphaned wildlife and promoting understanding and respect for wildlife through education since 1989.  WRSE annually treats over 1,000 wild birds and mammals, fields over 5,000 wildlife related calls from the community and provides education pertaining to human/wildlife interaction to 5,000+ students.  The Board of Directors is responsible for the governance and management of WRSE, to ensure that its facilities are operated in a manner consistent with the objectives of the Society.

We are looking for people with a variety of personal and professional backgrounds who wish to be a part of preserving, protecting and rehabilitating wildlife in Northern Alberta.  If you believe you can be an asset to this Board and are interested in learning more, please send an email to wrse_cheryl [at] shaw [dot] ca by April 1, 2010 to request further information, or leave your contact information at 780-433-0884.

Whereas many Canadians follow the international climate change negotiating process, few track parallel efforts to protect biological diversity. Not many are familiar with the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) or realize that 2010 is the year when Canada and other countries that ratified the CBD were to have realized their modest target of achieving a "significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss." Even fewer know that 2010 is the International Year of Biological Diversity and that a Copenhagen-like meeting of world leaders is set for October in Nagoya, Japan.

To raise awareness about progress — or lack of it — on biodiversity, Alternatives Journal is dedicating an issue to the topic. We are looking for articles of both a political and a scientific nature. We invite you to submit proposals that deal with issues such as the following:

• How is Canada, or other parts of the world, doing with regard to their efforts to reduce loss of biological diversity?
• What is the state of Canada’s and/or the world’s biodiversity?
• Is the Convention on Biological Diversity succeeding?
• What are the latest (or suggested) tools and strategies for protecting biological diversity?
• What role do business/government/NGOs play in protecting biological diversity?
• Why has the CBD taken a back seat to the Kyoto Protocol?
• What are you doing to recognize the International Year of Biological Diversity?

Full-time Permanent – 35 hrs wkly

The Environmental Sustainability Coordinator is responsible for initiating, implementing, and monitoring an Environmental Sustainability Plan that assures the City will remain a good steward of the City assets.  This position will assist administration and Council to adequately investigate environmental sustainability initiatives and opportunities.  Wage:  $61,593.00 - $78,483.06 per year.  Competition closes Friday, April 9, 2010 at 12:00 noon.

Alberta Ecotrust is delighted to announce the results of its 2010 Young Environmental Stewards (YES) program. With funding support from TransAlta and the help of a volunteer grant review committee of Young Environmental Professionals, the spring round of YES grants is helping nearly a dozen young Albertans convert their environmental passion into action through projects ranging from community gardening to people powered events! The 2010 program garnered 29 applications, of which 11 were funded with a total of $45,334.00.

To read more about the 2010 projects funded by YES, and learn more about the program, click [here]

Rising to Change: A Celebration of Collaboration

Join us in a Salute to Danielle Droitsch "Farewell to Alberta"

5:00pm AGM, Reception to Follow

RSVP: b [dot] becker [at] albertaecotrust [dot] com

For more details on how to join us for the 2010 Annual General Meeting

Location

Calls to protect one of Alberta’s last great unprotected watersheds received a recent boost with the publishing of the province’s new report, Status of the Grizzly Bear in Alberta. The 4,000 square kilometre Bighorn area, which sits east of Jasper and Banff National Parks, has suffered from motorized abuse, and it is now clear that grizzly bears are one more victim of that abuse.

Leading up to the Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth Rights in April and COP16 in Mexico, we are asking organizations to endorse the POST-COP15 TIME TO BE BOLD Declaration.

We now stand on the cusp of the bleakest periods where we are confronted with the zero point of systemic collapse.

Now is the time to be bold. No more compromise.

To add your organization’s endorsement please send an email to openyoureyes [at] sympatico [dot] castating the name of your organization and country.

Please include the name and position of person with signing authority.

In solidarity,

Joan Russow, PhD | Global Compliance Research Project
Cory Morningstar | Canadians Action on Climate Change

Climate Justice Groups – See endorsements to date (below declaration) and online at: timetobebold.wordpress.com  

To sign on as an individual: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/post-cop15-time-to-be-bold

Originally posted on http://www.GoodWorkCanada.ca (Listing ID: 10452)

Function/Purpose

This position is responsible for acting as a resource for environmental programming in Red Deer, which includes conducting research, developing and implementing programs, communicating environmental messages, and responding to inquiries.

Once a year, the Waste Management Branch hosts the Master Composter-Recycler Program. Over a 3 weeks course schedule (Tues./Thursday evenings and Saturday) volunteers will learn about environmental stewardship in our city, such as: history of waste management; home composting; household hazardous waste; vermin-composting and residential recycling.